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As companies stay private longer and private capital plays an ever-larger role in financing our innovation economy, some of the most consequential issues in business and governance are now emerging outside the public markets. The Stanford Private Capital Initiative (PCI) brings greater clarity, rigor, and practical insight to this critical part of modern finance through research, teaching, and engagement on the legal, economic, governance, and policy implications of private capital markets.

Housed at the Arthur and Toni Rembe Rock Center for Corporate Governance, PCI brings together investors, operators, lawyers, regulators, policymakers, and scholars to engage with the toughest questions facing private capital and help make this segment of capital markets more transparent and trustworthy. The Initiative advances that mission through curated convenings, research, executive education, and governance and policy initiatives focused on the future of private capital markets.

News

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Private capital has helped build some of the most important companies and technologies of our time, but it is also increasingly opaque, complex, and consequential in ways we do not yet measure well or fully understand.

Robert Bartlett, W. A. Franke Professor of Law and Business and faculty co-director of the Rock Center

The Team

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Robert Bartlett

  • W. A. Franke Professor of Law and Business
  • Professor of Finance (by courtesy), Stanford Graduate School of Business
  • Senior Fellow, Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research
  • Faculty Co-Director, Rock Center for Corporate Governance
Colleen Honigsberg

Colleen Honigsberg

  • Professor of Law
  • Bernard Bergreen Faculty Scholar
  • Associate Dean of Curriculum
  • Faculty Co-Director, Arthur and Toni Rembe Rock Center for Corporate Governance
  • Senior Fellow, Stanford Institute for Economic and Policy Research (SIEPR)